| Digital Art Revolution: Creating Fine Art with Photoshop |  | Author: Scott Ligon
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0823095363
Dewey Decimal Number: 776
EAN: 9780823095360
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Publication Date: March 9, 2010
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There’s no question that applications like Photoshop have changed the art world forever. Master digital artists already use these tools to create masterpieces that stretch the limits of the imaginationâbut you don’t have to be a master to create your own digital art.
Whether you’re a beginner who’s never picked up a pen or paintbrush, or a traditional artist who wants to explore everything a digital canvas might inspire, digital artist and arts educator Scott Ligon guides you and inspires you with clear instructions and exercises that explore all the visual and technical possibilities.
Featuring the work of 40 of the finest digital artists working today, Digital Art Revolution is your primary resource for creating amazing artwork using your computer.
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Window into the future of art September 4, 2010
Heitor Quintella (Rio de Janeiro)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Scott Ligon's book is an inspired and remarkable reflexion on the changes announce by new tchnologies. It heralds a new era in Art and presents a number of fine artists that are riding this new wave of creative work. He had a considerable influence on a group of artists that followed the principles of the manifesto da arte informatizada issued in Brasilia in 1984. He is being praised and a tribute will be paid to him in an important show in 2010 of Murat's EXPO in Rio de Janeiro. This book is a must for the open minded art lover and is window to the future of art.
More than your everyday revolution August 20, 2010
Orin Jenkins (Tampa, Florida U.S.A.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found Scott Ligon's creation by accident at my local library while searching for Adobe Photoshop CS5E supplemental help. My lucky find has finally put my 50 years of photographic creations into not only a revolution but also a revelation.
All the B/W and Color darkroom techniques I've learned and taught over the last 50 years have come to the surface after reading between the lines of "Digital Art Revolution". But this has little to do with Ligon's "DAR", and I would never have realized that what has been kept separated between my film and digital work presents itself time and again on Ligon's plethora of beautifully printed art-filled exampled sample pages that bring new ideas that combine more than just someone "trying" to make their digital photo art look like canvas art (in general) hanging in the gallery on its way to a loving wall and "oohs" and "awes" from onlookers, admirers, and proud new owners.
Art is largely creativity for the artist or admiration from the owner. If you are truly creative you will hear the bells ringing from what Scott Ligon has to say both textually and texturally. Otherwise, get back into the darkroom and just stand in the darkness for awhile remembering all the creative things you do (or did) that you thought couldn't be done digitally. What I came to realize, while practicing what I preach, is that what I can replace, starting digital software, can also be applied to what I once thought was the big riff between the two artful mediums... there is no riff if you stand there in the memorable dark long enough. I'm talking about the true image creator who created a single, signed piece of chemical art now looking for all those techniques of old once again applied to an image that is captured on digital permanence instead of the 25-years or so of life from my deteriorating film-for-masterpieces (which I still produce).
Scott's mental invasions will help some photographers become better at their chemical/digital craft, but, like me, some will see that, with a creative and builder's mind, all the creativity from gouache-on-a-brush is still there in its beginning stages as it comes peeling out of your professional-grade printer ready to be worked to amazement on some bizarre surface before your next champagne showing.
Thanks, Scott. Your book has truly made a difference in both my life and what more I can teach my students. I'm having to write down (okay... type on my keyboard) all my new-found creative thoughts before my age slips them away.
Tom TPC Jenkins
If you appreciate art and have a camera, buy this book. August 19, 2010
STEVEN VOTE (New York, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If ever there was a case for art meeting technology - this is it. Mr Ligon has put together an impressive tome, with real-life examples on how to take the ordinary and make it beautiful. Obviously one cannot be taught to be artistic per se, but even if you have a cheap $100 digital camera or scanner & Photoshop plus just an ounce of creativity the author puts you on the right path. Like Photoshop itself, 'Digital Art Revolution' is an amazing tool.
Digital Art Revolution August 11, 2010
neeal kandel (cleveland, ohio United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm finding that the Author has a tremendous capacity for addressing the needs for beginners
through people with an existing understanding of Photoshop.
As a beginner, I have scoured the bookshelves looking for a "how-to" book that understands
my lack of experience and creates step-by-step methods of getting me acquainted with the
program.
Most of the books that I've seen seem to take for granted that you will immediately understand
the technical jargon which loses me right off the bat.
It's about time a book like this came out to help the beginner! I am both enjoying the style
in which it was written as well as my "Eureka" moments gained from successful excercises.
The Golden Age of Digital Art is here! August 11, 2010
Bob Nolin (Bethel Park, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Digital Art Revolution is a Photoshop book written for traditional media artists who want to begin using Photoshop. Unlike most of the three bazillion Photoshop books out there, it's not written for photographers. Actually, it's kind of hard to describe just how different this book is. It's not industry specific (gaming, commercial illustration, film, etc.); rather, it's audience is pretty much anyone who wants to create images. Starting with basic design principles, the book delivers a thorough introduction to Photoshop. Absolute beginners may find the book moves a bit too fast, but I'm not sure. It's hard for me to evaluate that, since I know Photoshop quite well. On the other hand, the writing is clear and concise, the illustrations and screen shots are helpful and large enough to see, and it just may be the best introduction to Photoshop ever written. It's a big book (250 pages, 11×8.5), but it's still amazing how much information it manages to cover.
First-time author Scott Ligon is a frequent lecturer, digital artist, and director. He is the coordinator for the digital foundation curriculum at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he teaches art. The author's fine art background and orientation lend a fresh and exciting flavor to the book. The work of 44 artists is showcased throughout, but the examples here are not the usual commercial digital fare flooding the internet. This isn't another Photoshop eye candy book filled with speed paintings, vampires, and gun-toting, barely-clothed buxom babes. And that's a good thing. If you spend much time (as I do) browsing the work on Deviant Art and such sites, you start to see how much artists are mimicking each other. Ligon encourages us to bring forth our own unique vision, rather than trying to copy what's popular or trendy. According to Ligon, this is the beginning of the Golden Age of Digital Art, and everything is possible. "Take advantage of this time when anything can happen," he says. "There are vast areas of possibility that have never been explored. It might as well be you who explores some of them."
This is an excellent book, especially for those just beginning their digital art journey. For all artists, there's plenty of food for thought here, about process, method, and technique, especially when working digitally. If you want to stop copying the ideas of others, but don't know how to start creating your own work, this book is a wonderful guide. Don't miss it.
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